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Fintech firm Cashfree acquires Zecpe to strengthen its D2C Payments Suite

This acquisition will also enable Cashfree Payments to offer additional value-added services like Return to Origin (RTO) reduction, fraud detection, and address pre-filling, among others

RBI asks Razorpay, Cashfree to temporarily stop onboarding of new customers

The Reserve Bank of India has asked Razorpay and Cashfree to temporarily stop the onboarding of new customers for their payment processing business, according to a source. On the banking regulator's order, Razorpay said it is a temporary move and has no impact on Razorpay's existing business operations and current merchants. "RBI has issued an order a few days back asking Razorpay and Cashfree to stop customer onboarding," a source told PTI. No immediate comments were received from Cashfree. When contacted, Razorpay said it received in-principle approval from the RBI in July for a payment aggregator and payment gateway licence and the company is now required to share additional details with the RBI to aid in the final license process. "As part of this process, the RBI has requested us to temporarily withhold onboarding new online merchants till such details are submitted. As a responsible corporate that operates under the ambit of RBI, Razorpay has abided by the regulatory ...

Chinese loan apps: ED freezes Rs 46 cr kept in payment gateway accounts

The ED Friday said it has frozen Rs 46.67 crore funds of merchant entities kept in online payment gateway accounts of Easebuzz, Razorpay, Cashfree and Paytm following raids this week against a "Chinese-controlled" investment token app. The funds have been frozen under the anti-money laundering law. The latest action comes after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), earlier this month, raided the Bengaluru premises of Razorpay, Paytm and Cashfree over alleged irregularities in the operations of instant app-based loan-giving companies "controlled" by Chinese persons. Later, a seizure order for Rs 17 crore kept in their accounts was issued. The latest searches were launched on September 14 at multiple premises of the accused in Delhi, Mumbai, Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Gaya in a money laundering case being probed against an app-based token called HPZ and related entities. Sixteen premises of banks and payment gateways in Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur and .

Chinese loan apps case: ED raids Razorpay, Paytm, Cashfree in Bengaluru

The Enforcement Directorate Saturday said it is conducting raids at Bengaluru premises of online payment gateways like Razorpay, Paytm and Cashfree as part of an ongoing probe against "illegal" instant smartphone-based loans "controlled" by Chinese persons. The searches were launched Friday at six premises in Karnataka's capital city, it said in a statement. The search operation is in progress, the Enforcement Directorate said. The federal probe agency said it has seized Rs 17 crore worth funds kept in "merchant IDs and bank accounts of these Chinese persons-controlled entities", during the raids. The modus operandi of these entities is that they use forged documents of Indians and make them dummy directors leading to generation of "proceeds of crime", it alleged. "These entities are controlled/operated by Chinese persons," it said. "It has come to notice that the said entities were doing their suspected/illegal business through various merchant IDs/accounts held with payment ...

Cross-border payment: Four firms complete test in RBI's 2nd sandbox cohort

The four entities are: Cashfree Payments, Fairex Solutions, Nearby Technologies, and Open Financial Technologies

SBI invests undisclosed amount in digital payments startup Cashfree

Country's top lender seeks to promote digital payments. Last November Cashfree had raised $35.3 mn in Series B funding, led by UK's Apis Growth Fund II

Y Combinator-backed Cashfree eyes global markets, fintech acquisition

It is expecting international revenue to make up 30 per cent of its total revenue in the next three years

Cashfree, PayPal to help Indian firms sell to 350 million customers

Payments and banking technology firm Cashfree announced a partnership with PayPal

ED says crackdown on online betting websites found Chinese involvement

Agency seizes Rs 47 crore after searching more than 15 locations in Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune

Y Combinator-backed Cashfree gets $5.5Mn funding led By Korea's Smilegate

Notable investors George Osborne, former UK Finance Minister, and Vellayan Subbiah, former MD of Cholamandalam Investment also took part in this round